Posts by Y@DminG
Sprout.ai Adds Thompson to Growth Advisory Board
Sprout.ai named Ian Thompson as the first member of its growth advisory board. Thompson, who has 20 years of senior leadership experience and 30 years of insurance business experience, most recently oversaw 8,500 employees at Zurich as the group chief … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreJury Asked to Award More Than $6B in Preterm Formula Case Against Abbott, Reckitt’s
A lawyer for a Missouri mother on Wednesday asked a jury to make Abbott and Reckitt’s Mead Johnson pay a total of more than $6 billion in the latest trial over claims that the companies’ formulas for premature babies caused … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreJPMorgan Sues Customers Over Check Fraud Linked to Glitch That Went Viral
JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank, has begun suing customers for check fraud, saying they improperly withdrew funds by taking illegal advantage of a temporary technical glitch that went viral on TikTok. The glitch in late August let customers deposit … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreTaiwan Suspends Stock Trading Due to Super Typhoon Kong-Rey
Taiwan will suspend trading on its $2.5 trillion stock exchange Thursday as a powerful typhoon barrels toward the archipelago. Super Typhoon Kong-Rey has intensified as it skirts the Philippines and tracks toward Taiwan, where it’s expected to make landfall on … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreHomeowners Insurance Does Not Cover Cryptocurrency Theft, 4th Circuit Affirms
A federal appeals court has affirmed that a homeowners insurance policy does not cover the theft of cryptocurrency because the loss of a digital currency does not involve a “direct physical loss” as required by the policy. The Fourth Circuit … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreNew Gallagher Re-Bitsight Report Identifies Cyber Footprint as Claims Driver
A new report from Gallagher Re found that cyber insurers could reduce loss ratios up to 16% by removing most-at-risk entities. Using independent analysis of cybersecurity performance data provided by Bitsight in combination with claims data, the study uses a … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreProgram Uses AI to Send Cash Payments to 1,000 Households Hit by Hurricanes
Nearly 1,000 hurricane-impacted households in North Carolina and Florida will benefit this week from a new disaster aid program that employs a model not commonly used by philanthropy in the United States: Giving people rapid, direct cash payments. The nonprofit … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreAutonomous Tech Is Coming to Farming. What Will It Mean for Crops And Workers Who Harvest Them?
Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreNorth Carolina’s Governor Approves More Than $600M in Helene Recovery Funding
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper approved more than $600 million worth of disaster relief funding Friday for western North Carolina counties affected by Hurricane Helene after legislators passed the recovery bill the day before. The bill is the second legislative … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreMcDonald’s Sued by Consumers in Proposed Class Action Over E.coli Outbreak
McDonald’s was sued on Tuesday by consumers in a proposed class action stemming from the E.coli outbreak linked to onions in the fast-food chain’s Quarter Pounders. Amanda McCray of Chicago and William Michael Kraft of Davie, Florida, said they experienced … Source: Claims Journal
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